Learn How to Make a Vision Board!
Experience Life‘s article “Learn to Make a Vision Board” will help you learn this creative and fun skill. Check out a couple of EL employee’s vision boards below:
Employee one picked #26 from our 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy department and created a food theme. This is a great example of creating a vision on a specific topic if you’re too overwhelmed by casting a vision for an entire year, or you want to focus one one area in your life. She used a large piece of cardboard, and glue.
Employee two took a general approach, envisioning what she wanted her year to look, feel, and be filled with. She included community, alone time, a list of goals, art, gardening, food, travel, children and building her new marriage. It’s adhered on an old canvas, sewn on, with paint on top of the images. The travel area flips through places she’d like to visit. The yellow spaces of canvas are to remind her to make space in her life.
Inspiration from EL Readers
Get inspiration for creating a vision board of your own from the ones seen here, which were submitted by Experience Life readers. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions for making your own vision board (and info on why you would want to in the first place). Enjoy!
Jennifer F., Mocksville, N.C.
George and Amy W., Apex, N.C.
Tabatha S., Cleburne, Tex.
Angie S., Bryan, Tex.
Melanie, S., Lombard, Ill.
Kelley B., Austin, Tex.
How to Create Your Own Vision Board
Refer to the articles, resources and examples below for guidance on how to create a vision board of your own.
- “Embrace a Bold Vision”: Envision your ideal reality. Be willing to adjust your action plan. Then harness the power of hope to build a better life – and a better world.
- “See It, Believe It“: Imagine if everything went the way you wanted: your workouts, your relationships, your grandest career ambitions. Visioning can bring your life goals into clearer focus – and help you make them a reality.
- “Envision This“: Bring your grandest dreams and goals into reality using simple words and pictures.
- Whole Life Coaching Week 2 “Vision” Guide (PDF): An overview of the importance and benefits of visioning, along with step-by-step instructions for creating your own vision board.
A Little More Inspiration
Before you get started, take a look at a few of the vision boards that Experience Life team members have created …
Pilar Gerasimo’s vision board
Jamie Martin’s vision board
Blogger and author Jacquelyn Fletcher’s vision board
Maryanne O’Brien’s vision board
- www.visioningcoach.org: The Web site for Dr. Lucia Capacchione, author of Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams; offers the 10 steps for visioning and creating a vision board.
- www.gwenbell.com: Entrepreneur and educator Gwen Bell — co-creator of “The Unconventional Guide to the Social Web” — offers helpful tips for creating a personal manifesto and vision board in one of her recent blog posts.
- www.apple.com: If you’re a Mac user, put your dreams and desires in motion using iMovie or iPhoto.
- www.pinterest.com: Don’t have magazine clippings around or prefer digital projects? Create a vision board with Pinterest! Check out Experience Life‘s Vision Boards for more inspiration.
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